STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY.-FEES. V. Nothwithstanding anything contained in this Statute, or any other Statute, the fee payable by any candidate for any examination mentioned in this section shall be according to the following lower scale, if the candidate was a graduate or undergraduate of the University in December, 1886, and if he present himself for the examination at the earliest date permitted by the Statutes, and without having his course arrested by failure at any examination held between the year 1886 and the time of due payment of the fee :— For the Second and Third Examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, each For the Examination for the degree of Doctor of STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY. CERTIFICATES IN AGRICULTURE. Certificates of proficiency in Agricultural Knowledge will be granted to all students who, at the Intermediate Examination of Medical Students in 1893, pass in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and who also produce satisfactory evidence of having kept two years' terms at an Agricultural School or College approved by the Senate, and of having attended the courses of lectures and passed the annual examinations of the School or College, in the following subjects :-Agriculture, Chemistry, Physics, Natural Science, Veterinary Science, Land Surveying, Book-keeping, Mechanical Drawing. STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY. COMMISSIONS IN THE I. In accordance with the regulations issued by the War Office, and republished in the New Zealand Gazette of 21st April, 1892, the Senate is empowered to nominate each year one person to a Commission in the Cavalry or the Infantry of the Line. The Senate will be prepared, at each annual meeting, to consider applications from candidates for nomination. II. Any Graduate in Arts or Science, or any Undergraduate who has passed the first section of the Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. will, if he is in other respects qualified under the War Office Regulations, be eligible for nomination, provided that he also passes an examination in Geometrical Drawing. III. Candidates, after nomination, must, in the month of September following, pass an examination in military subjects as follows: : The scope in these subjects will be that embraced by the synopsis of the Course of Instruction at the Royal Military College.* There will, however, be no practical out-of-door examination in any subject. The text-books will be those in use at the time at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. *This synopsis has been published by authority and is sold by-Eyre and Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C.; or John Menzies and Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; or Hodges, Figgis and Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY.-BRITISH ARMY COMMISSIONS. IV. A candidate for nomination must be between eighteen and twenty-two years of age on the 1st of January next before his examination in military subjects. V. The candidate must, before the 1st day of May, put into the hands of the Registrar of the University the documents necessary to enable him to comply with the following War Office Regulation : The name of the candidate selected for nomination must be forwarded to the Military Secretary so as to reach him on the 1st July, and should be accompained by (a.) A certificate that the candidate is a British-born or (b.) An extract from the register of his birth, or, in (c.) A certificate of good moral character, signed by the tutors or heads of the schools or colleges at which he has received his education for the four years immediately preceding the date of application, or some other satisfactory proof of good moral character. (d.) A certificate from the head of the college that the candidate has passed the required University Examination, including Geometrical Drawing. MILITARY CADETSHIPS. I. Graduates in Arts of the University of New Zealand are recognised by the War Office as entitled to compete on equal terms with those members of other Universities who, without being required to pass either the preliminary or the further examination, are allowed to compete amongst themselves for admission to the Royal Military College. II. At each Annual Meeting the Senate will be prepared to consider applications from candidates for nomination to one Cadetship at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Any graduate or any undergraduate who has passed the first section of the Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts will be eligible, on condition of passing an examination in Geometrical Drawing, as required by the Regulations of the War Office respecting admissions to the Royal Military College, if he is in other respects qualified under those regulations. III. The regulations prescribe that a Cadet must be between seventeen and twenty-two years of age on admission to the College; the date of admission being the 1st day of September. The successful candidate will be required to send certificates of age and of moral character for the preceding four years, to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, so as to reach him by the 1st day of August. IV. The course of study at the Royal Military College extends through one year. At the end of the first term the Cadet has to pass an examination in the work of the term; and failure at the examination involves the loss of a term. There is another examination at the end of the course, and those who pass a satisfactory examination become entitled to Commissions in the Army as Second Lieutenants, and may be gazetted to regiments in the order in which they pass. V. The payment to be made on behalf of a Cadet varies from £20 for the son of an officer who has died in the service, and whose family is left in pecuniary distress, to £120 for the son of a private gentleman. A further payment of £25 for uniform, books, &c., and a deposit of £5 on account, for contingent expenses, are required. The pay of a Cadet is 3s. a day. For further information, intending candidates may refer to the Regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette, 29th September, 1881. |